11. The sentences in the following text are jumbled. Re-write the sentences in the
proper order and in a continuous paragraph to make a story. 1 x 14 = 14
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Rabindranath was the fourteenth child of Debendranath and Sarada Devi Tagore. He went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight. At the age of seventeen, in 1878, he arrived in London. He described London as a dismal city, smoky, foggy and wet. He joined his brother's family at Brighton and attended school there. He was quite happy in Brighton. But soon his brother sent him to London to benefit from the education in the west. Young Tagore joined London University where he attended Henry Morley's lectures on English literature. He often visited the Houses of Parliament and listened to Gladstone and John Bright's debates on Irish Home Rule. Away from his brother's home he was lucky to find a friendly English family of Dr. and Mrs. Scott. Their two daughters were taken aback with the presence of a 'blackie' in the house. But the girls parents in fact treated him like a son. Though he was full of admiration for English society, he was called back to India in 1880. He returned home without any qualifications of distinction.
12. The sentences in the following text are jumbled. Re-write the sentences in the proper order and in a continuous paragraph to make a story. 1 x 14 = 14 A cook once roasted a duck for his master. The roast looked so delicious that the cook could not resist the temptation and ate up one of the drumsticks. When his master sat down to eat he quickly noticed the missing leg and asked what had happened to the other leg. The cook told him that the duck had one leg only. The master was not to be fooled. He said that there was no such thing as a one legged duck. The cook insisted that this duck had only one leg. The master was very annoyed with the stubbornness of the cook and threatened to fire him from his job. Right at that moment the cook looked out of the window and saw some ducks resting outside in the courtyard. One of the ducks was standing on one leg and had the other leg folded inside. He drew the attention of his master and showed him that some ducks indeed have one leg. The master clapped his hands loudly which startled the duck. It put down its other leg as well and ran off. The master looked at the cook.
13. The sentences in the following text are jumbled. Re-write the sentences in the proper order and in a continuous paragraph to make a story. 1 x 14 = 14 In the early hours of the morning the Titanic' sank. Then her band was playing bravely on deck. Twenty minutes later another liner, the 'Carpathi' arrived on the scene. And it helped to rescue survivors from the icy water. But of the 2,224 passengers, only about 700 survived. It was a terrible disaster, But something good came out of the sinking of the Titanic'. In 1913 there was a committee of inquiry into the disaster. This committee drew up many new rules for shipping companies. Since then, every ship had to provide life-boat for each passenger. And every ship had to organise life-boat drill during each voyage too. Every ship has had to carry enough radio operators so that there is always one of them on duty. Another important result of the sinking of the Titanic' was the formation of an international Ice Patrol. This Patrol warns ships about ice and ice-bergs in the North Atlantic.
14. The sentences in the following text are jumbled. Re-write the sentences in the proper order and in a continuous paragraph to make a story. 1 x 14 = 14 One day a grocer borrowed a balance and weights from a fruit seller. After a few days the fruit seller asked the grocer to return his balance and weights to him. The grocer said, "The mice ate away your balance and weights. I am sorry that I cannot return them to you." The grocer thought to himself, 'The illiterate fruit seller is a great fool." The lame excuse of the dishonest grocer made the fruit seller very angry. But he controlled his temper and said, "Never mind, I cannot blame you. It is my bad luck." Then one day the fruit seller said to the grocer, "I am going to the town to do some shopping. Please send your son with me to carry my things. We will come back tomorrow." So the grocer sent his son with the fruit seller. The next day the fruit seller came alone from the town. "Where is my son?" asked the grocer. "A crow carried your son away," replied the fruit seller. "You liar. How can a crow carry away such a big boy?" The grocer shouted angrily. "Just the same way as mice can eat away the balance and weights", said the fruit seller. The grocer understood the point.
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